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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • Well, that’s not at all what I said. Japanese compact cars were generally pretty cool and affordable in a way most similar small American cars were not, so of course they get customized a ton more that their American equivilents.

    The people who actually made their cars perform were the racers, those who did the truly terrible mods were the ricers.

    Yes, racist due to stereotyping. But it was more wordplay for insulting the taste of the person in question in comparison to the racers, not their ethnicity or the origin of their car. Bad taste is pretty universal. And as with pretty much anything in language, people can and clearly have used it as a racial insult. I just don’t think that was it’s origin.

    I am really amused it has morphed into a more positive connotation with the *nix crowd, while still meaning essentially the same thing. Language truly is a living thing.






  • I feel like this would have been more true had it been posted 20-30 years ago. But while there’s some sociopathic types in books today, it’s a relatively small portion of the total.

    I’d be curious to see what books in particular you have in mind, maybe from those published in the last month or so. I suspect what you really mean isn’t sociopath, but non traditional-heroic-archetypes. Which I would agree with, protagonists these days tend to be more humanistic rather than god-like.